Canada: HD Hockey Night is Underway

Run for your lives! Canadian hockey pucks are flying everywhere in HD! On Nov. 5, the CBC launched its weekly "Hockey Night in Canada" for the new season, which often allows HD viewers to actually see the puck whiz across the ice and into the net. (It has always been a bit of a blur in the analog realm.) Each Saturday

Run for your lives! Canadian hockey pucks are flying everywhere in HD! On Nov. 5, the CBC launched its weekly "Hockey Night in Canada" for the new season, which often allows HD viewers to actually see the puck whiz across the ice and into the net. (It has always been a bit of a blur in the analog realm.)

Each Saturday Night, the first game of a doubleheader, the pre-game show hosted by Ron MacLean, and the Coach's Corner during the first intermission of game one will be aired in HD. (The second game will remain in SD.) But on Saturday, Jan. 7, viewers can watch the second game in HD, too, of the CBC's traditional all-Canadian NHL tripleheaders, as the Edmonton Oilers host Toronto.

The Canadian Football League on the CBC will also offer HD coverage of CFL playoffs, including the Scotiabank West Division Championship on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 6 p.m. EST, and the 93rd Grey Cup Championship in Vancouver, B.C., at 5:30 p.m. EST.

Last Saturday night, March 31, Canada's legendary legions of hockey fans were afforded HD programming that many probably thought was literally twice as good as before: Both games of the CBC's traditional "Hockey Night in Canada" were made available as an HD doubleheader, thanks to a second mobile production truck named "Encore."

Bexel Brings Hockey to Life for Canadian Viewers with First Ever NHL Game Broadcast in 3D BURBANK, CA, December 16, 2010 – When the puck dropped on Saturday night, December 11, Bexel and its BBSOne 3D Mobile Production Facility were there to ...

It probably did not come as a total shock to observers, but Rogers Cable does not believe any revisions to Canada's Broadcasting Act should authorize HD carriage fees for broadcasters. The cable operator has asked the Canadian Radio-TV & Telecom Commission to reject any fee-for-carriage model. Rogers believes the na

Are you ready for some football? The Canadian Football League season, which kicked off last weekend, will include 77 televised games this summer and fall, with at least half of them in HD. TSN said it will broadcast 50 football games (an estimated 27 in HD), while the CBC will air 27 games (11 in HD). Not all HD

Unlike the United States, Canada does not have a transition plan in place for digital terrestrial television broadcasting. That, however, hasn’t stopped Canadian broadcasters from producing and distributing programming in HD, whether it be by cable, satellite or over-the-air.